Mawuse Dake

Mawuse Dake was a Ghanaian politician and academic.

Politics Dake was the running mate for the presidential bid of Ibrahim Mahama for the Social Democratic Front in the 1979 Ghanaian general election. They won 3.72% of the vote, coming fifth.

He left for Kenya where he worked as a consultant for some years. In 1983, he was made the Secretary to the National Defence Committee.

In 1992, when the ban on party politics was lifted, he became one of the founding members of the People's Heritage Party (PHP) whose leader was Emmanuel Erskine. He is reported to have been influential in the merger between the PHP and the National Independence Party (NIP) led by Kwabena Darko to form the People's Convention Party (PCP). He is reported to have been against the alliance formed between the New Patriotic Party and the PCP called the Great Alliance to fight the 1996 Ghanaian general election. He is also reported to have been influential in the PCP and the National Convention Party (NCP) merging to reform the Convention People's Party.